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I'm a new TI player and I have to say that TI4 is fantastic.
I wouldn't be keen on a distant suns type mechanic - the game is long enough and complex enough already, and RNG is evil in a player vs game sense.
What I would like to see is minor races - but deployed at game start like the rest of the map.
They'd be on a single planet and you could conquer them or otherwise diplomacy them. It'd need to be dirt simple though, like a token with some requirements on it.
I really liked this from star trek ascendancy, even if that was the only thing I liked..

It's turn 6 and I know where the rebel is. He knows it too and has made no real attempt to hide for the last turn at least.There are now many rebel units at the base and by the time I get there this is the lineup:2 x shield generator1 x ion cannon3 x speeder1 x turret7 x troopers2 x anti-tank troopers3 x AT-ST2 x AT-AT6 x storm troopers1 x tankImps are 5R, 5B, 1G.rebels are 3R, 5B, 3G.in the non-cinematic combat system, the rebels would have a +2 hand size advantage in cards but the Imperial would have the benefit of rolling first, potentially allowing card collection and spending with sabers.I think this is a relatively even fight.in the cinematic combat system, the rebels put down tow-cable.The imperials put down armoured patrol - prevent 2R & 2B.The imperials roll a few sabers they cannot use.Immediately thereafter, the rebels use their shield generator to play tow-cable again. thats 8 red hits in two rounds just from cards. The imperials are absolutely destroyed.I don't know if the intent of the cinematic combat system was do favout the rebels but I think it does to a pretty huge extent.I'm actually wondering at this point whether it is possible to beat a turtled rebel who intends to fight and win, or die in one big fight.Todays experience has really turned me off the new combat system.

I disagree that the alterations are minor, i think the new combat system provides quite a large defender bias which is entirely the opposite from the old system.
it means there's an extra 16% on each die of that die being useless.
While I agree that combat is not the main focus of the game for the most part is IS how the game is won or lost. The new combat system favours the defender, typically the rebels, by about 16% which, at least to me, is not minor.

Yeah the manual in the expansion is poor. I say manual. Large sheet of paper.
Really, an extra two sheets before would have saved so much agro later.
Even the setup is cumbersome as you now have to reference both pages at the same time, figure out which no longer applies, etc.

It is interesting that the previous advantage the attacker had (pick up more cards with a lightsabre) is now switched to a defender advantage (the attacker may waste dice and cannot use a lightsabre).
That doesn't feel right at all.
I actually feel that you should save your lightsabres until last. The rules are really not clear on the designers intent here and are even less clear on how to perform the new combat mechanism.

Ah. That's not what we concluded yesterday. We had both players 'saving' lightsabre results until the end of the combat and then using them.
I'll read it again.
This paragraph from the rules seems to suggest you can keep them for later
"Since units are not destroyed until the end of the round of battle, a player may
be able to save a unit from being destroyed by removing damage. Example:
A unit that has 1 red health is dealt 1 damage. Later in the battle, a player
spends 1 red 󲅑 to remove 1 damage from the unit and prevent its destruction."

If I disregard the 'play with one set or the other set' and just shuffle them all, what's the impact?
Is it just that you'll have a more random deck and potentially therefore not pull some of the powerful character cards?

I'm on the fence about the whole thing.. i already have a good sci-fi skirmish game.
it's a shame it wasn't something I don't already have (like a large battle epic scale type thing) but being FFG I have no doubt it will be a good game

Yes, capital ships really cannot defend themselves against fighters at the moment.
Maybe against TIEs or other hit-3 units, but tie bombers are so resilient they can ignore AAA and just continue to bomb.
Though, I'm not sure thats a bad thing. Squadrons are the other half of the game.

Maybe so but then it's this cycle of everyone trying to take the 'right' characters to kill the other guys characters.
It's more that I just don't get why Rhymer helps everyone else, or has no downside, for the 6 points why would you not want the cruise missiles..?